->''The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it's everywhere. The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.''-->-- '''Matt Taibbi'''

->"When someone says, "We've got people everywhere," you expect it to be hyperbole! ''Lots'' of people say that. '''Florists''' use that expression! It doesn't mean that they've got somebody working for them [[NotHyperbole inside the bloody room!]]"-->-- '''M''', ''Film/QuantumOfSolace''

->"It's like I said: I'm just one small part in a great machine."-->--'''Knox''', ''{{Series/Angel}}'' ("A Hole in the World")

->''"This city was literally built by my people. Brick by blood soaked brick. And decade after decade the city screams at you that [[InherentInTheSystem it cannot function financially]] without men just like me. The city is structured socially, politically, economically around us. Through us. Because of us. What I am telling you is that when you finally do understand this… your life will become a lot less stressful."''-->--'''[[{{ComicBook/TheKingpin}} Wilson Fisk]]'''

->'''Bruce Wayne''': Gotham isn't beyond saving. Give me more time. There are good people here--\\'''Ra's Al Ghul''': You are defending a city that is so corrupt that we have infiltrated ''every'' level of its infrastructure.-->-- ''Film/BatmanBegins''

-> ''The Company, [[TheConspiracy with godlike modesty, shuns all publicity. Its agents, of course, are secret; the orders it constantly (perhaps continually) imparts are no different from those spread wholesale by impostors.]]''-> ''Besides—[[FridgeHorror who will boast of being a mere impostor?]] [[ParanoiaFuel The drunken man who blurts out an absurd command, the sleeping man who suddenly awakes and turns and chokes to death the woman sleeping at his side—are they not, perhaps, implementing one of the Company's secret decisions?]]''-->-- '''Creator/JorgeLuisBorges:''' ''The Lottery in Babylon''

->Many people [[BeneathNotice ignore the workers who sort through their trash]], blissfully throwing away [[KnowledgeBroker what the Nosferatu harvest]]. They don't notice the construction workers toiling on skyscrapers far over their heads, or more importantly, the foreman who obediently follows his instructions for changes and alterations to the building's construction. [[BeneathTheEarth Beneath the mortals' feet]], workers scurry underground, performing unseen tasks, sometimes on epic projects the average citizen simply doesn't care about. Many of them are required to pass drug tests to keep their jobs, [[ParanoiaFuel but even blood tests can't reveal an addiction to vitae]].-->--''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade - Clanbook: Nosferatu (Revised)''----